2026 Daniel R. Engstrom: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	75	715	633	340	290	172	19264

Overview

Daniel R. Engstrom is affiliated with the Science Museum of Minnesota in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on subfields including environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, oceanography, atmospheric science, and ecology.

Engstrom has contributed to studies on various topics such as aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, soil and water nutrient dynamics, mercury impact and mitigation studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent coauthors in Engstrom's publications include Adam J. Heathcote, Peter R. Leavitt, Nathan V. Gunnell, N. John Anderson, and Mark B. Edlund.

Publication venues where Engstrom has appeared multiple times include Environmental Science & Technology and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, along with other contributions to Science Advances, Hydrobiologia, and Freshwater Biology.

Recent papers by Daniel R. Engstrom include:

Anthropogenic alteration of nutrient supply increases the global freshwater carbon sink (2020) published in Science Advances
Resolving Atmospheric Mercury Loading and Source Trends from Isotopic Records of Remote North American Lake Sediments (2020) published in Environmental Science & Technology
Physical characteristics of northern forested lakes predict sensitivity to climate change (2022) published in Hydrobiologia
Long-Term Experimental Manipulation of Atmospheric Sulfate Deposition to a Peatland: Response of Methylmercury and Related Solute Export in Streamwater (2022) published in Environmental Science & Technology
Early presence of Bythotrephes cederströmii (Cladocera: Cercopagidae) in lake sediments in North America: evidence or artifact? (2021) published in Journal of Paleolimnology

Best Publications

The Case for Atmospheric Mercury Contamination in Remote Areas

William F. Fitzgerald;Daniel R. Engstrom;Robert P. Mason;Edward A. Nater

1326
Citations
A Synthesis of Progress and Uncertainties in Attributing the Sources of Mercury in Deposition

Steve Lindberg;Russell Bullock;Ralf Ebinghaus;Daniel Engstrom

1040
Citations
Local to regional emission sources affecting mercury fluxes to New York lakes

Revital Bookman;Charles T. Driscoll;Daniel R. Engstrom;Steven W. Effler

767
Citations
Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

S. Kröpelin;D. Verschuren;A.-M. Lézine;H. Eggermont

744
Citations
Increasing Rates of Atmospheric Mercury Deposition in Midcontinental North America

Edward B. Swain;Daniel R. Engstrom;Mark E. Brigham;Thomas A. Henning

714
Citations
Chemical stratigraphy of lake sediments as a record of environmental change

D.R. Engstrom;H.E. Wright

677
Citations
Reconstruction of past changes in salinity and climate using a diatom-based transfer function

S. C. Fritz;S. Juggins;R. W. Battarbee;D. R. Engstrom

506
Citations
Age and survivorship of diapausing eggs in a sediment egg bank

Nelson G. Hairston;Robert A. Van Brunt;Colleen M. Kearns;Daniel R. Engstrom

487
Citations
An assessment of Chironomidae as quantitative indicators of past climatic change

Ian R. Walker;John P. Smol;Daniel R. Engstrom;H. J. B. Birks

437
Citations
Chemical and biological trends during lake evolution in recently deglaciated terrain.

Daniel R. Engstrom;Sherilyn C. Fritz;James E. Almendinger;Stephen Juggins

382
Citations
Recent Declines in Atmospheric Mercury Deposition in the Upper Midwest

Daniel R. Engstrom;Edward B. Swain

355
Citations
Sulfate addition increases methylmercury production in an experimental wetland.

Jeff D. Jeremiason;Daniel R. Engstrom;Edward B. Swain;Edward A. Nater

303
Citations
Modern and historic atmospheric mercury fluxes in northern Alaska: Global sources and Arctic depletion

William F Fitzgerald;Daniel R Engstrom;Carl H Lamborg;Chun-Mao Tseng

282
Citations
Modern and historic atmospheric mercury fluxes in both hemispheres: Global and regional mercury cycling implications

C. H. Lamborg;W. F. Fitzgerald;A. W. H. Damman;J. M. Benoit

277
Citations
Mercury in soils, lakes, and fish in Voyageurs National Park (Minnesota): importance of atmospheric deposition and ecosystem factors.

J.G. Wiener;B.C. Knights;M.B. Sandheinrich;Jeffrey D. Jeremiason

276
Citations
Modeling the Past Atmospheric Deposition of Mercury Using Natural Archives

Harald Biester;Richard Bindler;§ and Antonio Martinez-Cortizas;Daniel R. Engstrom

273
Citations
Large shift in source of fine sediment in the upper Mississippi River

Patrick Belmont;Patrick Belmont;Karen B. Gran;Karen B. Gran;Shawn P. Schottler;Peter R. Wilcock;Peter R. Wilcock

259
Citations
A palaeolimnological record of human disturbance from Harvey's Lake, Vermont: geochemistry, pigments and diatoms

D. R. Engstrom;E. B. Swain;J. C. Kingston

242
Citations
Twentieth century agricultural drainage creates more erosive rivers

Shawn P. Schottler;Jason Ulrich;Patrick Belmont;Richard Moore

214
Citations
Hydrologic Variation in the Northern Great Plains During the Last Two Millennia

Sherilyn C. Fritz;Emi Ito;Zicheng Yu;Kathleen R. Laird

210
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sherilyn C. Fritz University of Nebraska–Lincoln

William F. Fitzgerald University of Connecticut

Emi Ito University of Minnesota

Carl H. Lamborg University of California, Santa Cruz

Carl P. J. Mitchell University of Toronto

Patrick L. Brezonik University of Minnesota

Peter R. Leavitt University of Regina

N. John Anderson Loughborough University

James P. Hurley University of Wisconsin–Madison

Brian A. Branfireun University of Western Ontario

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